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Graded task assignment
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Last discussed Oct 24, 2026
A behavioral technique of breaking tasks into tiny achievable steps to build mastery experiences and efficacy.
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Positive Psychology Founder: How To Stop Your Negative Thoughts - Martin Seligman
Martin Seligman · Oct 24, 2026
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Used for: Overcoming helplessness by building efficacy through small successes
Praised: Creates a cascade of mastery experiences and systematically increases efficacy
"Go to your sink and wash one cup. Okay? Turns out if you wash one cup, that leads to a cascade of mastery experiences... you go on to two cups, and then you go on to cleaning up. And it turns out when you do graded task assignment with people, you..."
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